It is very hot in Turkey.

The last of June is the day when inevitably, each year, the great integer counter representing my life's span ticks one numeral further, an occasion that would seem like a strange thing to celebrate, all in all, were cake not inevitably involved, which does admittedly help a lot ( Read more... )

It's been a good month now in my new apartment, and although I am arguably starting to settle in, I am increasingly starting to realise that the entirety of my life up to this point, during which just having a room of my own has not infrequently been a luxury, has left me inadequately prepared to make use of an entire apartment. What is it, exactly ( Read more... )

So, it turns out that I have a new place to live in, with some curious side effects - one being that I now have a floor that is not covered by three-foot stacks of books and research journals. The other, not coincidentally, is that a considerable portion of my time and effort this month outside of work have been spent in search of new, affordable ( Read more... )

So the talk of the day is that Pillars of Eternity, the Kickstarter darling of 2012, has come out - to considerable amounts of fanfare and a fair bit of muffled grumbling on the side ( Read more... )

Well, the last month has actually been quite busy with all the requisite writing of articles and grant applications that comes with my new territory of PhD studentness, but thankfully not quite busy enough to entirely keep me from my recent streak of actually *gasp* playing games. And so, lately, I've been plumbing the lowest depths of grognardom ( Read more... )

So, although it took several weeks of bureaucratic wrangling and a letter of complaint to get it done, I really am, well, truly and officially, a PhD student now. Hooray.

This is, all in all, not a bad thing, though it's something that I could feel more excited and less ambivalent about if philosophise doctor weren't an academic title that's of ( Read more... )

Well, the year's done! There's probably some kind of summary to be done about that one of these days. For now, though, let it just be said that ancient Finnish divinatory practices are making a strong case that 2015 is a year to be extremely worried about dragons.


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Not much of import has happened this month, but if I were to make a note to myself about it for future reference, it probably ought to be that while coming up with indoorsy things to do is a reasonable idea in a time of the year in which you're lucky to get a couple of hours of sunlight a day if that (which go by while you're stuck in a windowless ( Read more... )

I'm just going to ramble for a bit about games.

So I've been playing a whole lot of Japanese RPG Maker horror games recently; largely because they're the kind of short games I could conveniently play on my laptop during commutes to work. They're also free, and if there's scenester drama involved in their creation, I don't know about it, so that's ( Read more... )